Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: from Unbox to Battle to Victory

With the ruleset and element pick that I got the most important thing was that the element I was picking had great armored units in it
In the beginning I thought about playing water but all of the units there were quite high mana cost and with only 31 mana available I had to think of another plan
So in my case I went with fire element and Tarsa as my summoner because I had decently low mana armored monsters there and also because Tarsa had some great buffs being +1 melee damage and +1 hp

Grum Flameblade was one of my main tanks for this battle
Main reason I like Grum Flameblade here a lot is his Bloodlust ability
Even tho Grum Flameblade costs a lot of mana I still decided to play him just because how strong he is when he gets couple quick take downs
Bloodlust - Every time this Unit defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats
Void Armor - Magic attacks hit this Unit's armor before its Health
Void - Reduced damage from Magic attacks by 50%

Uraeus is possible my favorite monster in the entire game
You get a lot of stats for only 3 mana
And what is even better is that Uraeus is a Neutral monster which means he can be played in almost any battle
Sneak - Targets the enemy unit in the last position

Next up was my recently unboxed reward legendary Emberguard
This was my first battle with him and I really liked the idea of him
For decent 7 mana you get a quite strong magic monster with Demoralize which is really strong ability
Demoralize - -1 melee power to all enemy units

And for last but not least is my second tank for this team and my backline
The idea for him was that even tho he was not able to attack from the last position he still had his Retaliate ability which hopefully make him get at least couple attacks in before he gets taken down
The other thing was that because I played a monster with Demoralize now my Dumacke Orc Shield was hopefully make him take very little of damage if not non
Shield - 50% less damage (rounded up) from physical attacks or 0 damage from physical attacks of 1 power
Retaliate - 50% chance to counterattack successful melee attacks, even if defeated

After seeing the starting board I was kind of on a fence if I was going to win or lose this battle
I had a lot more damage on my side and I also managed to predict my enemy playing backline attacking melee monsters with my Demoralize and Shield backline combo
On the other hand my enemy had a lot of sustain on his side with his Repair and high hp + armor monsters
After a little calculation I felt like I had a little edge on my enemy with the way my backline was set up compared to his attacking monsters who were dealing almost 0 damage to my backline
But my predictions could still be off by a mile so lets start the battle and have a look

After the first two rounds the board was still looking quite the same as in the start
I still had my entire board while my enemy finally lost his first backline monster
One scary thing was that my backline was being taken down little by little and I had to start moving with him front line to take same damage off my backline
Great thing was that my enemy played a really high armored monster with only 2hp which meant if my magic monster could get a great fast attack on him the rest of his team would be exposed quite easily
But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

Next Round was 50/50 for me as I managed to take down my enemies first tank but after that I waisted my Grum Flameblades 5 damage melee attack
But that aside I was still on the path to victory in my opinion
Next round I was going to take down my enemies last tank and hopefully one of his damage dealers
Lets hope for the best and keep watching

4th Round was so huge for me as I managed to take down my enemies last tank and one of his damage dealers
At this point I felt 100% safe of my victory in this battle
Next round I was taking down his only ranged monster deleting the ability to repair his armor and focusing my entire damage on his last monster
Lets make one more stop before the victory screen

Last stop after the 5th round and now you can see how sure this victory was going to be
While I still had my entire board my enemy was on his last on only monster
Now I just needed to wait for the start of the next couple of rounds and then face my victory

It took me 2 rounds to kill my enemies last standing monster as he sadly got a take down on my Grum Flameblade in the second to last round
After his Isgald Vorst had fallen I took the victory
Battle Replay Link

This battle was definitely heavily one sided but still fun to watch
The strategy to take away from this battle is the basic Demoralize and Shield backline combo
This was also my first battle with Emberguard that I just recently unboxed and I have to say I really like him and will be playing him a lot more
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